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From: milgr@teapot.prime.COM (Marc Milgram)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Let's get moving gang!!!
Keywords: Implementation, Network Novelties
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Date: 24 Aug 90 17:56:53 GMT
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In article <7686@helios.TAMU.EDU>, jsaxon@cs.tamu.edu (James B Saxon) writes:
|>Consider the power of an overnight call to rally, e-mail style...
|>
|>Consider voting directly through the computer at all levels of
|>	government... (what electorate?)
|>
Most people have neither the interest not the inclination to do the research
for every vote carried out at the federal and state levels.  However, this
might be a good alternative method for writing one's representatives in
congress, thereby expanding the mediums by which one can communicate with
congress.

|>Consider signing and sending petitions through the network...
|>	(digital signatures)
|>
People keep bringing up the point that it is too easy forging signatures
through email.  I see major problems if electronic petitions were allowed
for federal and state political purposes.  (I guess that people can still
forge signatures using pen and ink, but it is not as easy).

|>Consider people carrying "dynabooks" or "tablets" around...
|>
|>Consider looking at links rather than data...

Do you mean for tracing criminals?  It has been done.
|>
|>On your marks, get set...  get modern!!!!
|>
|>--
|> ---- \ / ----	  /--------------------------------------------\  James
Bennett Saxon
|>|   O|	 |   O|	  |  "I aught to join the club and beat you    | 
Visualization Laboratory
|>|    |   |    |   |   over the head with it." -- Groucho Marx  | 
Texas A&M University
|> ----     ----   <---------------------------------------------/ 
jsaxon@cssun.tamu.edu
                   

Marc Milgram
milgr@teapot.prime.com